Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-09

yet it has q perceptible effect on the air;
for the mercury always rises or 10 degs.
by 2 p. m., and even before sunrise there is
change, as the registering thermometer Of
the signal Office marked 81 dogs. below, as
the coolest during the last night of SO,
while at sunrise it stood at "a dogs.
1t makes one shiver to hear the old soldiers
tell of Gen. Miles winter campaign. For
weeks together his men marched, secuted and
fought where the mercury never rose to 10
degrees above zero. More than once they
broke trails up mountain gulch where the
snow was from two to ten feet deep, each
man taking the lead by turns for few min
utes at a time. It was severe enough on the
soldiers, but it was destruction to the Indians,
as it is impossible for them to move fast III
winter They are thinly clad at the best,
and their custom is to lie close in their
'teepees" during the coolest weather; and at
such times they are almost as stupid as hiber
mating animals Their ponies are also poor
and unshod. The soldiers on the other hand
are warmly clad and well fed and their horses
have some grain; so they can penetrate to the
very doors of the "teepees" in tolerably fair
fighting condition.
There has been no fighting in Dakota for
SSNSIdl NehlS, DuO UllSIO oIO OCCCiSlOlldl Jul.
neys Of great hardship. In the terrible winter
of 1S79-SO Lieut.. H. Liggett, with company
K of the Fifth United States, made tie
march from Bismarck over to the yellow
stone valley and return, taking supplies to
post. Every night, when the tents were
erected, be took his stand at the door and APP
piled snow to every mans face and ears be-
fore allowing him to go near the fire. The
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business, yet they could not keep ears and
noses from getting frosted in a days ride.
After getting into quarters once more the
skin peeled off most of their faces, bat
no serious harm resulted. The striking
fact is that ear OF nose often freezes so
suddenly that one does not know it; he is no
conscious of painful cold for more than
minute, especially if there is no wind. Wh.n
friends ride out together on a cold and ce2
day it is the polite thing for each to watc
the others nose and clap on bunch Of snon
at the first sign of freezing. And after rid
on entering house, you viii occasionally
surprised by polite request from the he
for you to stop in the hall and not go ne"
the fire till he can rub the frost out of y0u
noSel
The northern Indians have a system Is
which they can restore a man frozen almost
solid if there is still good circulation in LIS
vital organs. They first put him in a ''teepe'
without fire and but little warmer than TIE
outer air, and rub his frozen members with
snow, then with fur and then with bare
hands till circulation is extended a little
Next he is taken into a slightly warmer pl,
and the extremities kept cool with snow til
he gains little more, and lastly his from
members are immersed in cold water willie
the sound part of him is warmed and cheerel
with food and drink. The philosophy of i, is
that the thawing must be brought on by the
natural circulation, from within outwarliv:
and then the blood gets into each section rs
fast as it is restored. But if the surfa.7-
thaws first, from external heat, the circI:l;i-
ton cannot reach it at once; and in sur
prisingly short time it is dead flesh. Man, u
man lost leg, arm, ear or nose in the early
days of ignorance who would now be re-
stored sound and whole by the Indian
method.
The coteaux of Dakota are certainly a GU
riosity in geology. Going west from this